One of the better ways of handling this kind of thing is to have central "system" directories with users able to put their own data in their home directories. A search path isn't a bad thing, as is the ability to set directories in environment variables.
Having only one directory in which to store everything is kinda old-style. On 02/25/2010 09:12 AM, Martin Spott wrote: > Tim Moore wrote: > > >> Do you want 100s of people to be involved with FlightGear development, or >> tens of thousands? >> >> I think the individual hangars are great, no matter what their license. I >> hope FlightGear better supports multiple data directories in the future. A >> single data directory, with a centeral repository, just doesn't scale. >> > Other OpenSource projects are pretty successful wrt. maintaining a > continuously growing amount of data and it's obvious that the > FlightGear projects is, well, a little bit different in this respect. > Nevertheless I don't think that the projects traditional policies > should be changed just because "our" server/repository infrastructure > didn't manage to keep up with the projects success. > > To my opinion we should aim at having as many people involved as > possible - and if the current way of managing the repository doesn't > scale, then it's time to have a repository which is suitable to meet > the requirements of the job. > Running and maintaining a large, growing repository is not a technical > issue, "we" are just facing issues due to some tiny but relevant > details about how things are being organized here. The old story .... > > Cheers, > Martin. > -- “I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.” – Ben Franklin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
